Sample Article: "Wynton's Blues" The Atlantic Monthly   March 2003 Articles: The American Scholar See: www.theamericanscholar.org "Chameleon with a Toupee" (Bobby Darin)   January-February 2005 BookForum "Persian Miniatures" (Marjane Satrapi)   October-November 2004 The Los Angeles Times Book Review "Rising Above the Rat Pack" (Sammy Davis, Jr.)   November 23, 2003 The New Yorker "Folk Hero" (Woody Guthrie)   March 29, 2004 The New York Times Book Review "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (James Cagney)   December 7, 1997 "The Life and Death of Cool" (Chet Baker)   June 30, 2002 "Homeland Insecurity"   September 12, 2004 "Stars and Strips"   December 3, 2006 The New York Times Magazine The New York Times/Op-Ed The New York Times/Arts and Leisure The New Republic "Authenticity Blues" (Alan Lomax)   June 16, 2003 "This Year's Model" (Elvis Costello)   October 6, 2003 "The iPod Blues"   March 29, 2004 "God Only Knows" (Brian Wilson's Smile)   October 15, 2004 "A Nice Young Man" (Josh Groban)   March 7, 2005 "Heart Music" (Fred Hersch's Leaves of Grass)   May 16, 2005 "Jumble Jumble" (White Stripes)   July 25, 2005 "McCartney III"   December 26, 2005 "Instant Gratification" (MySpace)   March 6, 2006 "The Producers" (Rick Rubin and Kanye West)   May 29, 2006 "The Music of Starbucks"   August 7, 2006 "Heroine" (Anita O'Day)   December 25, 2006 "Ye Olde Rocker" (Sting)   January 29, 2007 "Songbook Jam" (Mos Def)   March 19, 2007 "TzadDik" (John Zorn)   June 8, 2007 "Stolen Moments" (Abbey Lincoln and Mark Murphy)   September 10, 2007 "They Paved Paradise" (Joni Mitchell)   (November 5, 2007) The New York Review of Books "Fascinatin' Rhythm" (Harry Partch)   July 20, 2000 "Not Quite All That Jazz" (Ken Burns' Jazz)   February 8, 2001 "The Spirit of the Spirit" (Will Eisner)   June 20, 2001 "He Took Manhattan" (Richard Rodgers)   August 15, 2002 "Comics for Grown-Ups" (Daniel Clowes and Joe Sacco)   August 14, 2003 "Hustling Elvis" (Col. Tom Parker)   October 9, 2003 "The Royal Blues" (Dinah Washington)   June 23, 2005 Vanity Fair See: www.vanityfair.com The Village Voice See: www.villagevoice.com RETURN TO HOMEPAGE